Indonesia's @Tiket snags top prize of USD25K at international Tech-I competition

Indonesia’s Tiket.com snags top prize of USD25K at international Tech-I competition December 28, 2012 by Terence LEE Tiket.com , an Indonesian startup that lets users book airline tickets, concert tickets, hotel accomodation, and travel packages, has won the top prize of USD 25K at the Tech-I international competition organized by the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Initiative. The winners were announced at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai held in mid-December. Since launching in November 2011, Tiket has gone on to grow at a 20 to 50 percent clip every month, according to TechinAsia . So far, it has partnered with 1,000 hotels, six airlines, 30 convert events, and 300 travel agents. Tiket has also achieved two quick concert sell-outs — dishing out 1,000 tickets for a Japanese rock band within 2 minutes, and 6,000 tickets for Korean pop gr...